disabling of XWindows start on ubunt

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

>On 5 May 2013 15:42, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>It is preferred not to top post on this list, insert your reply inline
>at appropriate points in previous message.  Thanks.
>

Don't bother trying anymore. No one cares about the rules anymore. I guess they learned to read email from the bottom to the top.


>> Hi,
>>  I am now already in the middle of 13.04 installation.
>>
>> I tried recovery mode, I could enter to it, but I couldn't delete
>> lightdm.override as it is read only when in recovery mode.
>>
>> I did not try 'update-grub' but I am not sure it would work since the
>> change was not in grub. I don't know.
>>
>> I have the installation CD; just for the future - is it possible to
>boot with it
>> with a RW permissions ? With fedora it is possible if I remember well
>> also in "rescure mode"
>> (from the disk itself) after chroot /mnt/sysimage.
>
>No need to chroot to access disk when booted from live image.  The
>disk should automatically appear in nautilus.
>
>Colin
>
>>
>> rgs
>> Kevin
>>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
>wrote:
>>> On 5 May 2013 14:27, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> No.
>>>> I think I will install there 13.04 ubuntu server
>>>
>>> If you boot off the live CD you can mount the disk and remove
>>> lightdm.override to get you back to where you were.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>>
>>>> rgs
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Scott Linnenbringer
>>>> <s.linnenbringer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> Thanks for your answer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried with lightdm.override and now I cannot boot at all... it
>is
>>>>>> stuck...
>>>>>> any ideas ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Stuck? Are you able to get to a text terminal by Ctrl + Alt + F1 ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>  Scott
>>>>>
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